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HOLOCAUST PROGRESS REPORT
Nov 13 2000 // Deborah Senn, Insurance Commissioner of Washington State, announced that she will hold a public hearing on Nov. 20 to assess the progress that European insurance companies are making in the international effort to...
Washington State Commissioner Requests Holocaust Progress Report
Nov 7 2000 // Deborah Senn, Insurance Commissioner of Washington, announced that she will hold a public hearing on Nov. 20 to assess the progress that European insurance companies are making in the international effort to compensate...
Senn Defeated in Washington Senate Primary
Sep 21 2000 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Deborah Senn, vying for a seat in the U.S. Senate, was defeated in Tuesdays Democratic primary by Internet software millionaire Maria Cantwell. Cantwell, riding the surge of a $5 million...
Senn Orders Investigation of Improper Denial of Auto Injury Claims
Jul 19 2000 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Deborah Senn has ordered her staff to investigate national allegations that auto insurers rely on “medical reviews” performed by laypersons to deny insurance benefits to...
Washington D.C. Commercial Deregulation Bill Passes
Jul 13 2000 // Legislation to reduce government regulation of commercial insurance in Washington D.C. was approved by the District of Columbia Council. Under the legislation, large commercial risks are exempt from filing requirements for...
Jul 10 2000 // The fall of California Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush was painful to watch. There was no quick, quiet exit. It was a drawn-out, three-month ordeal documented and driven day by day by the Los Angeles Times and the...
Washington State Supreme Court Ruling Seen Favorably by Industry
Jun 27 2000 // The Washington State Supreme Court’s unanimous decision affirming a lower court’s ruling that said insurers need not include all possible reasons for denying a claim when determining if they have a duty to...
Making a Sales Call on Capitol Hill
May 15 2000 // “You’ve got to go to this conference, you can’t miss it,” IIAA vice president-public affairs Jeff Myers told me repeatedly. So, on April 30 I hopped on a red-eye flight to attend the Independent...
Clinton Speaks at IIAA Legislative Conference
May 4 2000 // President Bill Clinton told independent insurance agents from around the nation that a tax credit for long-term care, Medicare prescription drug coverage and improvements in health care that will result in Americans living...
WORKERS’ COMP MARKET OVERVIEW
Apr 3 2000 // CALIFORNIA STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS By Sky Barnhart “After five years of product being given away, it’s a crazy, crazy market, and it’s put a lot of people on the producers’ side out of...
